Formerly a staff writer at Philadelphia International Records in the 1970s, in 1981 Frankie Smith recorded his first single, "Double Dutch Bus," where he rapped about a funky bus where everybody's getting down. Like "Rapper's Delight" and many other rap songs that were gaining traction, the song tells a clever and self-deprecating story: He misses his bus and has to walk 15 blocks to get to work. But "Double Dutch Bus" has a secret weapon: a hook filled with a kind of pig Latin variation sung by Smith and a group of kids. The song charted at number 1 on the Billboard R&B charts for four weeks and eventually reached 30 on the pop charts that summer.